The Key West Citizen Newspaper, April 1, 1941, Page 4

PAGE FOUR ~~ SOCIETY : |First Aid Class To |Hold Meeting Service League Names Officers Ernest Avila was elected presi- | There will be a meeting of the | dent of the Young People’s Serv-|Red Cross First Aid Class held | ice League of St. Paul's Church | tomorrow afternoon at the Har-| at the regular weekly meeting, fin School, ‘beginning at” 4100) 7:30 o'clock, Sunday evening in} "el the Parish Hall. o* lock. | Other officers selected’ were: All interested are requested to Jack Sawyer, vice-president. be in attendance. ! Catherine Conners, seeretary. ee SELLS Cua New officers will take ey T. A Council To Meet Tomorrow next Sunday evening. Charles Roberts is the league counsellor. Legion Officer Will Visit Key West There will be a meeting of the} Monroe County Council P.-T. A. jheld tomorrow afternoon, begin- Mrs. Zoe Buzzell, president of | ning at 3:00 o'clock, at the Harris | the state: American Legion Aux- School, according to announce-; iliary, will arrive in Key West | nent wate te deena 1 tomorrow from Coral Gables for | bess ze the purpose of outlining activi- Russell, president of the organi- ties in connection with the con- |zation. vention to be held here. The nominating committee will i She be a cotramatice make its report at this meeting, eeting he! morrow aftern s a onda a at 3:00 o'clock at the home of and S full attendance of Mrs. A. M. Morgan, 1400 Reyn-|Pers is requested. olds street. Mrs. Morgan is gen- eral chairman of the various com- | mittees, and all chairmen are re- quested to be present. mem- Paul Mesa Arrives For Vacation versity of Florida, Gainesville, arrived home this morning over | the Overseas Highway to spend the spring holidays with Mrs. Mesa and his parents, Mr. and} Tommy Leaman, veteran of the Mrs. Paul Mesa on Washington | French Foreign Legion, the Bat- CONDUCTS REVIVAL REV. HENRY A. SCREWS, vis- iting evangelist, is drawing in- creasing crwods to hear him at the Fleming Street Methodist church, where he is preaching each evening through Thursday of this week. Rev. Screws is manifestly a modern prophet of Ged in the authoritative man- | mer in which he delivers his | | timely messages to the people. The public is cordially invited to hear him and to share in the services. tle of Flanders and the Spanish | street. Civil War, left Key West for New Other students at the Univ | er- | sity who are expected home to- | THE KEY WEST CITIZEN GOLDEN RULE IN WORLD AT WAR ALL CHARITIES AND OR- GANIZATIONS “The Golden Rule in a World at iGolden Rule Fellowship, official |magazihée “of The Golden Rule Foundation ‘the current number | \fice. The Fellowship is issued in | behalf of all charities and kindred | organizations seeking to help wo- ;men, children and other innocent victims of the wars in England, Europe and Asia, and the desti- tute, neglected poor in the United States. A “Golden Rule War-Time | Calendar for 1941” is a part of the program. It directs attention to) |outstanding dates for special aid |to the bombed, homeless refugee, |hungry, destitute and sick, as follows: 6-13; Golden Rule Observance of |Mothers’ Day, May 11; Loyalty ;Days in Churches and Syna- |gogues, October 4 and 5; Golden | Rule Thanksgiving, Nov. 20 or 27; |International Golden Rule Week, |Dec. 7-14; Golden Rule Christmas | jand New Year ministries of | mercy. The Fellowship cover carries a |photograph of 17,000 orphans of |the first world war who were |cared for in the Near East. The |picture, labeleu “The World’s |largest Assembly of Orphans”, was made in Armenia under di- rection of Charles V. Vickrey, then head of the Near East Relief, now president of The Golden Rule |DEDICATED IN BEHALF OF) NATURE NOTES By J. C. GALLOWAY (Reprinted From Port Allegany (Pa.) Reporter) We Go to Big Pine Key “That trip to Big Pine Key we have been talking about; we be- lieve we could take it tomorrow”, considered a moment; yes, we! could go. So next morning about | 8:30 we were transferring equip-| ment for all emergencies of! TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 1941 and palms appeared, small palms, KIRKES BUY PROPERTY few or none: over ten or fifteen feet; Thrinax or Thatch palms of | Mr. and Mrs, Jonathan Cates, two speciés, both with fronds of Key West, have sold to Mr. and silky silver on the under side,|Mrs. Wallace B. Kirke their 30- under the tali slender pines, jfoot front lot on Whitehead street . )near Caroline. Purcha: i Once Big Pine was deep in fer- | about $800, sii saat tile soil, the accumulation of ages of leafmold over the foun- peo |stiff leaves ru: i dation rock. Then came the white {fled and spiny on the edges like a- holly; with an- | War*sisuthe-key=note of -/The | of which has just reached this of- | Easter Offerings, April | said our friends the Dahles, when we stopped in one evening. We SENATOR PEPPER ON: WATER LINE ae (Continued fron, Page One) cluding buildings, accessories and equipment. Pipe Line Contract “It is the intention of the Bu- reau of Yards and Docks”, Sena- tor Pepper said, “to ask for bids May 1 for the actual construction line to provide Key West a source jof water supply for Navy and civilian needs. “The necessary piping has al- ready been purchased by the Navy and deliveries are expected to begin shortly. Work will be started from the mainland near | Homestead ana the piping will |be laid along the right of way of the. Overseas High: a . “Plan is to rush ‘ne OEY i |pletion and when this is" déi seme 3,000,000 gallons «of . fresh, jwater will flow to Key West |daily, enough to assure an ample |supply for a greatly enlarged |naval establishment at Key West and, as well, a vastly increased civil popviation”. FHA Building Increases collecting in the back of the sta- Settlers, bringing their inevitbale jof the 135 miles of 18-inch pipe | tion wagon, along with the lunch | and soon we were on the way. We bad long heard of a beach! With it, until now the bare’ roek ‘with pil at Big Pine, which once we had Searched for. But, anyway, Big‘ Pine is a wilderness still myster- ious to strangers, and we were anxious to learn more of it. It was a still, quiet morning, unny after clouds of dawn. The il; scarcely a rip- le ruffled its surface, except at long intervals. In the distance were parallel bands of green, light and dark; nearby, subdued |tints of pink and blue, green and purple areas marked the chan- nels, the white sand floors, and the sea moss and grass marine! meadows. Through the park-like jtoadsides of Boca Chica and’ Geiger Key; across Bird Key’s mangroves and on again over shoal gardens of grass and alga| and sponge, endless acres covered | with a thin sheet of water as| ,clear as the glass that covers a} |picture in its frame, repeated | again and again under the suc-} cessive btidges. , | 1 Pe ! | Then came the|Saddle Bunches, | ; which logk like Jands in the mak- | jing; as though the forms _ and’ | foundations were not yet réady | for the finished and perfected earth. For here the island floors are more or less bare rock, hori- € pl waste and folly with them; they burned the jungles, andthe soil shows like a paved. road ‘all through what riow. . remains... of. the forest. Stilt, Neture-works,to tedeem it. The pines and the palms sprout in the saucer-like pockets of leaf-mold, seareh for cracks in the rock, and root deeply in the moist and softer limestone below; and drop their leaves to cover again the bared rocks. Farther on, where we were later to go, the rock is rougher; jother row of long black spines on the midrib beneath. Beside it we Stic We saw a short grass } Pinkish, seéds; they proved 40: Be. real. flowars, ’ . SS) ict the turnof the hig e turn..of the highway we took re trail past the Inn >a ing alone in the wildern: and followed a mile or so gp ua Jungle, and came out-in the open where were clumps of mangrpves scattered over a stony plain. There we left the car and walked over tidal flats whose rock r was covered with rainwater tans Senator Pepper pointed out to-|zontal but rough, half in ‘and pits and pools hold some water and the jungle is almost too dense to penetrate. of mud drying and cracking jin the sun, to mangroves and e shore where the stone platf me \slimy with mud, ran out to But here in the rocks were the under the sea. Here was no silver palms, one larrcr withinic beach, except for the mi rounded fans, the other slender |quitoes, which welcomed us with its fronds cut to the center; | thusiastically. and here we found a smilax or! cat-briar, this one with narrow| (TO BE CONTINUED) MLM SS For Real Purity York yesterday afternoon with Tommy Gerard, Detroit business operator. The pair will go as far as Jacksonville together, with Gerard heading for Detroit from there and Leaman going on to his father’s symmer home at Long Is- land, N. Y. Foundation and editor of the Fel-|day that by the end of December, jhalf out of the sea; shallow lowship. Nae 72,530 Florida property owners |ponds, and clumps of mangroves, j The magazine describes in de-|had benefited by the provisions |and virgin prairies still in their |tail the Foundation’s ministry, |of the National Housing Act. Aj|youth, with rough grass and ACTIVITIES of all organiza- with special emphasis upon its | total of $98,047,583 had been ad-|Wweeds, and now and then a patch nse, | Coin-a-Meal-Saves-a-Life” —_ en-/ vanced to them by. private lend-|of hardwood scrub. Sugar Loaf, z ~~ |deavor in which slotted globes are jing institutions in loans insured |and Cudjoe, Ramrod and _ Little j incivid-| being distributed throughout the! by the Federal Housing Adminis-|Torch have come farther along to are being called upon and| Western Hemisphere The goal is | tration. {maturity, the latter having per- jare responding wholeheartedly. “A coin-a-meal globe on the din-| “Of this number 19,117 families |haps the finest tropical forest on Observation taken at 7:30 a. m,|The Key West Art Center, as a|ing table of every American for | obtained FHA insured |the lower keys. For Real Economy For Real Service For Real Protection DELIVERED DAILY EVERYWHERE morrow are: Jeff Knight, Jr., W.| C. Maloney, Jr., Paul Sawyer, Jr., Ignatius Lester and Lionel Cobo. a published weekly in this column in The Citizen, sponsored by the WPA Key West Art Center. | | tions are being shaped to Defe yp | Artist: EPORT jually, U. S. WEATHER BUREAU Ri s, collectively and Bernie C. Papy, Monroe County representative, will leave today for Tallahassee, where he goes to be in attendance at the legislature which convenes on April 8. loans } 75th Mer. Time (city office) emperatures Highest last 24 hours Lowest last night - Mean . = Normal Mrs. Otto Lundquist of 626/ William street, returned to this} city afer undergoing an operation at the Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. Mrs. Lundquist has been away from the city for the past six weeks, 67 |i 74 N1 |t It Precipitation |Rainfall, 24 hours’ ending 7:30 a, m., inches Total rainfall since March 1, inches a Excess Total rainfall since Jan. 1, inches i. a RAI 8 | Excess since January 1, inches ieee inet big aici and Velocity | 3 miles per hour | Relative Humidity 94% .Baromieter at 7:30 a. m., today 0.45 0.45 | since March 1, ti Mrs. Wilson, wife of Lieut. Samuel K. Wilson, will leave to- day for points in Pennsylvania | where she will visit for some time. Professor Ernest Hoffzimmet, in charge of the piano department at Univ. of Music Indiana Univer- sity, Bloomington, Indiana, and Ernest Heise of Orleans, Indiana, are visiting in the city for a few days. i {ul m. m. | L m.|V mM. |p jt C Tomorow's Almanac Sunrise 6:17 a. | Sunset _. 6:44 p. Moonrise 10°11 a. Moonset 11:44 p. Tomorrow's Tides (Naval Base) AM, 1:21 6:16 FORECAST (Till 7:30 p. m, Wednesday) Two Marriages Here Yesterday Charles Almeda, 22, and Louise Nunez, 18, both of Key West, were married yesterday by Peace Justice Enrique Esquinaldo, Jr. Miss Nunez, who is a minor, was accompanied by her mother and guardian, Mrs. Lillie Hernandez. In another ceremony last night, Justice-Esquinaldo married Fran- cis Edwin Hyatt, 34, Oxford, P: and ‘Aftne Viola Hoch, 31, Eliza- beth, N. J. The ceremonies were performed at Esquinaldo’s home. | SOUTH BEACH NOTES PED! High Low 12:31 |¢ TAT cloudy tonight and Wednesday; jlittle change in temperature; | g gentle to’ moderate variable west. and Wednesday; little change temperature. Jacksonville to Florida Straits | and East Gulf: Moderate vari- | + O AGUILAR able winds, mostly south and | tonight and Wednesday. i A very nice crowd was at th neni : CONDITIONS beach Sunday afternoon, with beautiful day greeting local as | well as visiting beachcombers. jable extent, centered this morn- € css | ing over the central Rocky Moun- | Among the many at the beach | tain and Plateau States, and the were Mr. and Mrs. Townsend | Appalachian region, have caused Morgan and their three daugh- | precipitation during the t 24 ters, Bitsy, Mary and Marguerite. | hours throughout — the Others were Mr. and Mys. Charles | States and in man; Taylor, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice | the Mississippi Va Rivas, Miss Maudie Johnson and, with heavy rain friend, Miss Lloyd. southern C tions of the Atlantic coasts Pressure gh in the Lake § the eastern Mexico, and off the sav coast. Temperature ch been unimportant with near or above the country th: G eastward reported in Others enjoy the invigorat- ing breezes and other pleasures at the seashore were: Mrs. Paul Daniels and son, Billy, Mr. and Mrs. J. Veliz, County Commis. sioner Edward Gomez, wife, three daughters and son. M Thomas S. Caro, Mr. and Mrs. Edelmira Morales and Mr moth- er, Mrs. Oscar Pablo Calleja, Mrs tinez, Mrs. Betty daughter from Frank Del gelio Gome: Morgan, Mr Carl Smart, Ka liam R. Porter. and Mrs. W. P. K ters. ‘ales’ in charge NEW STORE OPENED t Atwell Dr. p and daugh- Ne Commodor put his yacht d general overhauling. 0.39 | practical subjects. 1 alone requests have already | tical suggestions whereby every- 7.27 | been made for over 100 exhibition | body may assist in providing life’s c ¥.M, | April 2 schedule ‘Key West and Vicinity: Partly, Center. will be Low pressure areas of consider- |! aaiel Pacific | 4 | unit of the state-wide Florida Art | Project, WPA, has been perform-! the physi ng Defense services for some ilities to fit Na- . Opportuni- be ly shaping all f ional Defense ne ies for all service men will ake part in classes devoted and recreational art In military district No. Existing c! prvice s already and asses ircuits. nelude many men heir families and special cl Sea level,),29.88 (1011.9 millibars) | Usual developments. ONE OF THE MOST POPU- LAR regular activities at the Key West Art Center, during srevious winte sons he regular Wedne Fathering s. _ Wednesday will mark the closing of his activity for the season. this and Artist: EFFECTIVE April 8, the new for as follows: Tuesday, 2:20. p. m.—Art Club at the Douglass Colored School. Wednesday, 10 a. m.—Adult winds, mostly south and south- | Quidoor Sketeh. Class. Thursday, .10..a.. m.—Crafts. in Florida: Partly cloudy tonight Native Materials at the Art Cen- | in | te; Friday, 10 Adult Outdoor S| he Art Center. Saturday, 10 a —Criticism of etch Class at m.—Chi THE MONTH OF APRIL will sring to Key West to be display- d at the Art € er th notable exhibition of Ce American Paintir been shown in most ntempor of Art ual over arranged wi of the Works WPA Art Ce included They were from leading by a com- composed of ith, president arwater Art Museum, chair R. H. McK . President of M |the moral and spiritual health of | amounting to $74,475,901 for the| |the American home as well as for | porpose of financing home own- | Bridge after bridge over crys-} to| has been | n’s | southwest; partly cloudy weather’ prawing Class at the Art Center.|in New York City, 54 years ago. t has} ical welfare of warphai and refugees of Asia and Europe. 72] time past and it is now definite- |'The request is that each member | riorida obtained $23,571,682 to im- {of the family deposit a penny, |nickel, dime or larger coin ,at each meal to help people who are caught in war's horrors, millions | " : jarranged to view comprehensive | of whom otherwise may not sur- exhibitions of works of arts and | vive. The Fellowship is graphically illustrated with Chinese and Eu- ropean scenes depicting war-re- lief opportunities, and with prac- necessities for helpless people. | Copies of the Fellowship may be secured by addressing The Golden Rule Fellowship, 60 East are being formed to meet the un-| 49nd street, New York City. day’s Birthdays = To | Linton Wells of New York, au- |thor, broadcaster, aviator, travel- T, born in Louisville, Ky., years ago. David A. Crawford, of the Pullman Company, president Chi- S$ at the Art) cago, born in St. Louis, 62 years} ago. Agnes Repplier of Philadelphia, famous author, born there, |years ago. Dr. Aurelia H. Reinhardt, presi- dent of Mills College, Oakland, Cal., born in San Francisco, 64 jyears ago. Laurette Taylor, actress, born Dr. Alexander G Ruthven, president of the University of Michigan, born in Hull, Iowa, 59 years ago. D. C., lawyer, ex-secretary of commerce, born in Marlboro Co., 2 |S. C., 7 t years ago. | Keep Your Weight In Shape and Your Shape In Weight ROLLER SKATE Southard Street—Ladies 25¢ SESSIONS: 2:30 to 4:30 P. M. 7:30 to 10:06 P.M. SHOE SKATES FOR SALE $9.75—TERMS If You Can Walk You Can Skate 83 Daniel C. Roper of Washington, | jtal covered marine meadows and ichannels deeper green; wooden | bridges all, with the abandoned |prove, repair or remodel their /railroad’s concrete arches stand- properties under the provisions |ing alongside, waiting until they of Title 1 of the National Hous-|shall become the main highway ing Act”: jand carry the traffic of the keys | SERIE {to Key West. Island after island; | PROPOSED BILL land at last we came to Big Pine. | IN LEGISLATURE |turning right; and soon the pines ership”, the senator declared. “In addition, 53,413 families in 'We followed the main highway, ' IO PAISPPLALZALLAZLLLL LAID Thompson Enterprises INCORPORATED ICE DIVISION a PHONE NO. 8 ACA AAELA EAL ALLL LL 2 IIPPLAAAALECPOLL OL EL (Continued from Page One) it unless provision is made for a vote. | Any effort to put through a bill | |taxing or licensing salt water | fishermen, he will oppose, Papy | said. Asked about two bills pre- | | sented by Commissioner Eddie | |Gomez for redistricting of the! county and a return to the old law permitting nomination of commissioners by the districts, |Papy said he had studied the | measures, but would not comment | | until he has had more time to} | learn how local people stand on | the question. | Papy said he wants local citi- zens to understand that he is their representative and to feel free to call on him whenever . there is | any question which would come | under his jurisdiction in the legis- | | lature. JACKIE MORAN in HAUNTED HOUSE Also, Comedy and Serial TONIGHT — PRIZE NITE | STRONG ARM BRAND COFFEE TRIUMPH COFFEE MILLS AT ALL GROCERS CAUSE ENORMOUS PROP- ERTY DAMAGE. APPROVED by FHA and LICENSED SPECIALIST in TERMITE CONTROL Inspection and Advice FREE S-year GUARANTEE BE WISE —. CALL FEDERAL EXTERMINATING CO. 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